Engaging with the complex intersections of immigration, exile, gender identity, and multiple cultural affiliations, Vir Andres Hera draws from these themes to create work that weaves personal narratives with historical fragments. Working primarily in video, text, and sound, the practice reflects the layered nature of identity and belonging. The work often unfolds through a convergence of voices, languages, and shifting perspectives, creating poetic and polyphonic structures that resist linear storytelling. Fragmented visual sequences, multilingual texts, and symbolic references operate together to evoke a sense of dislocation, memory, and transformation. Influenced by queer and decolonial thought, as well as collaborative research with performers, thinkers, and spiritual practitioners, Hera’s work challenges dominant historical narratives while reclaiming the space for embodied, plural knowledge. Through layered media and poetic inquiry, Hera creates work that speaks to the experience of displacement while affirming multiplicity, memory, and resistance as generative forces. ...
